Most of the invertebrate higher level diversity occurs in the ocean, and our lab has been interested in elucidating the systematics, biogeography, phylogeography and ecology of a diversity of marine groups, from sponges to annelids, platyhelminths or nemerteans, among others.
Past Funding:
- NemPhyl: Reconstructing Nemertean Phylogeny using phylogenomic tools [Nemertean Consortium]
- Sipuncula: Their Phylogeny and Phylogeography
Highlighted publications:
- Kawauchi, G. Y., Giribet, G. 2010. Are there true cosmopolitan sipunculan worms? A genetic variation study within Phascolosoma perlucens (Sipuncula, Phascolosomatidae). Marine Biology 157, 1417-1431.
- Kawauchi, G. Y., Sharma, P. P., Giribet, G. 2012. Sipunculan phylogeny based on six genes, with a new classification and the descriptions of two new families. Zoologica Scripta 41, 186-210.
- Andrade, S. C. S., Montenegro, H., Strand, M., Schwartz, M., Kajihara, H., Norenburg, J. L., Turbeville, J. M., Sundberg, P., Giribet, G. 2014. A transcriptomic approach to ribbon worm systematics (Nemertea): resolving the Pilidiophora problem. Mol. Biol. Evol. 31, 3206-3215.
- Kawauchi, G. Y., Giribet, G. 2014. Sipunculus nudus Linnaeus, 1766 (Sipuncula): cosmopolitan or a group of pseudo-cryptic species? An integrated molecular and morphological approach. Marine Ecology 35, 478-491.
- Riesgo, A., Farrar, N., Windsor, P. J., Giribet, G., Leys, S. P. 2014. The analysis of eight transcriptomes from all Porifera classes reveals surprising genetic complexity in sponges. Mol. Biol. Evol. 31, 1102-1120.
- Riesgo, A., Novo, M., Sharma, P. P., Peterson, M., Maldonado, M., Giribet, G. 2014. Inferring the ancestral sexuality and reproductive condition in sponges (Porifera). Zoologica Scripta 43, 101-117.
- Andrade, S. C. S., Novo, M., Kawauchi, G. Y., Worsaae, K., Pleijel, F., Giribet, G., Rouse, G. W. 2015. Articulating “archiannelids”: Phylogenomics and annelid relationships, with emphasis on meiofaunal taxa. Mol. Biol. Evol. 32, 2860-2875.
- Fernández, R., Lemer, S., McIntyre, E., Giribet, G. 2015. Comparative phylogeography and population genetic structure of three widespread mollusc species in the Mediterranean and near Atlantic. Marine Ecology 36, 701-715.
- Giribet, G., Kawauchi, G. Y. 2015. How many species of Siphonaria pectinata (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) are there? Journal of Molluscan Studies, eyv038.
- Lemer, S., Kawauchi, G. Y., Andrade, S. C. S., González, V. L., Boyle, M. J., Giribet, G. 2015. Re-evaluating the phylogeny of Sipuncula through transcriptomics. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 83, 174-183.
- Riesgo, A., Maldonado, M., López-Legentil, S., Giribet, G. 2015. A proposal for the evolution of cathepsin and silicatein in sponges. Journal of Molecular Evolution 80, 278-291.